New Hope Baptist Church

New Hope Baptist Church is a church at 1317 Gust Lane in Chesapeake, VA 23323. It is one of 347 churches in Chesapeake.

1317 Gust Lane, Chesapeake, VA, 23323

Website: http://www.wehavenewhope.org/

New Hope Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,736 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.

Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.

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The community around New Hope Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

  • Obesity: 45.0%
  • Social Isolation: 36.5%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.2%
  • Food Insecurity: 23.0%
  • Diabetes: 16.7%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.1% (7.7–22.5%)
  • Unemployment: 10.3% (1.8–19.3%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.1%
  • Housing Insecurity: 18.6%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.8%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Chesapeake city is served by 180 churches — about one congregation for every 1,385 residents.

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